benighted

英[bɪ'naɪtɪd] 美[bɪ'naɪtɪd]
  • adj. 陷入黑暗的;愚昧的
  • 动词benight的过去式和过去分词形式.
Adjective:
  1. overtaken by night or darkness;

    "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home"

  2. lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture;

    "this benighted country"
    "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"
    "the dark ages"
    "a dark age in the history of education"

1. Famine hit that benighted country once more.
饥荒再次席卷了那个蒙昧的国家。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Listen to both sides and you will be enlightened , heed only one side and you will be benighted.
兼听则明,偏信则暗.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. In the benighted Middle Ages, intellectual curiosity was discouraged by the authorities.
在中世纪这个黑暗的年代里, 求知欲全给统治阶级扼杀了.

来自辞典例句

4. If you don't hurry, we might be benighted on the way.
如果你不快点, 我们在入夜前可能无法抵达.

来自辞典例句

5. I -- a benighted hoyden, already blossomed teenager of a knowledgeable.
我 —— 一个愚昧无知的野丫头, 已长成一个有知识的少年.

来自互联网

    用作形容词 (adj.)
    1. I'm a savage in a benighted age, alone and helpless in a land with no culture.
      我犹如黑暗世纪的野蛮人,孤单无助,活在一片没有文化的土地上。
    2. The benighted Chechens were not the only victims of the amorality.
      愚昧无知的车臣人并非是唯一的是非不分的牺牲者。

benighted的相关资料:

【邻近词汇】